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2005/7/11

annoying google toolbar for firefox

@ 11:28 AM (34 months, 21 days ago)
It's nice to finally have a Google toolbar for Firefox; However I have to say that the new XUL tool from Google intended to move the great IE Toolbar to firefox doesn't look that good. The buttons are cluttered, the pagerank image is unclear, maybe on purpose since it carries no meaning anymore. Then the german version I have adds this incredibly annoying mouse tooltip over every english word. Mysteriously, after the install, users get this mouse tooltip and one has to first realize why this happens, then dig up in their options section to remove it. On top of all that, Firefox users now have two google search boxes, one near the URL box (as many defaulted it to Google), and now the Google Toolbar search box, and overall the Firefox top layout becomes more and more cluttered.

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